Description

Google Play Music provides free, ad-supported radio for what you’re doing, how you’re feeling, or what you want to hear. Instantly start radio stations based on songs, artists, or albums, or browse by genre, mood, activity, decade, and more. Bring your own music collection with you by uploading 50,000 of your own songs; then listen to them across Android, iOS, and the web, for free.

Subscribe to get on-demand access to millions of songs and download anything to listen even when you’re not connected - or sign up for the family plan on Android to provide access for up to six family members for one low price. Plus, subscriptions come with membership to YouTube Red, so you can enjoy YouTube ad-free, in the background, and offline.

Free features:*Radio curated by experts for anything you want to hear*Store up to 50,000 songs from your personal music collection*Discover and subscribe to podcasts*Smart recommendations based on your taste*Listen on Android, iOS, and the web

Subscription-only features:*New! The family plan, where up to six family members can enjoy Google Play Music for one low price.*On-demand access to over 35 million songs*YouTube Red membership (see www.youtube.com/red for details)*Download music to your device and listen when you’re not connected*Ad-free, uninterrupted listening

Learn where Google Play Music is available at https://support.google.com/googleplay/?p=availability

Learn more about Google Play Music at https://play.google.com/music

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Vini DelNegro

I LOVE Google Play Music. Love it. That said a few changes would make it better. The first would be too create/save queue with podcasts like one can with music. Second would be to integrate lyrics with songs/videos. I can find lyrics online in browser for Google Play lyrics but not in the app. Kinda frustrating. It would also be nice to have the videos integrated into the app better. Even be able to just create video playlists in the app without the need to go to YouTube. Though the YouTube Red addition to the subscription is pretty bitchin. Thanks for an awesome app just the same!

Jake Cummings

When I view an album, I would like to see what playlists I've added it to. Sometimes when viewing an album, the 'Share' option is not available. The UI is very difficult to learn, everyone on my family plan has given me that feedback. Often times there is music I like but the a new album doesn't appear on the new releases. This seems like new releases are more of an advertisement than artists relevant to my interests. Thank for all your hard work, I'm interested in what I hear may be happening to the service later this year as some have suggested it will merge with YouTube.

micro MDRNEMT

I think this app has a bug. I used the file manager app of Moto to play my .flac and .mp3 files and it prompted me to use this app. After playing some music, I closed the app perfectly. It didn't even lasted 5 minutes of play time. Since then, my volume controls are on music by default and my battery drained fast even without me using the phone (i had it on sleep mode). Did you really had bugs fixed last update?

Ian Ambrose

Great app, responsive. Would be great to be able to filter your Library differently though. Playlists by 1) Purchased/Free, 2) All Access Library but not Purchased, 3) Own Music Uploaded/sideloaded, 4) mixture of these 3 as required. The recent update to allow selection of 'downloaded' only still includes music on your device....almost there, Google! Would be good to launch/'add to library' straight from Google Play instead of manually searching in Google Music.

Brandon Giesel

Long time Play Music subscriber strongly considering leaving. The Android Auto app is so bare bones that it isn't even funny. The contextually aware playlist suggestions , genre, activity, mood stations aren't available within the Android Auto version of the app. It's so bare bones that you wind up listening to the same music over and over again. Play Music offers great curated playlists. Please make them accessible to me in Android Auto and I'll be super happy and content. Thank you for your consideration!

Graham Johnson

The whole Google Play Music environment needs more robust and reliable syncing and better handling of metadata. This app needs clear differentiation between uploads, purchases and subscription music in My Library, and filtering for searches. There have been many quirks with casting. Most get fixed eventually but it would be better if they didn’t keep appearing.

User reviews

Vini DelNegro March 15, 2018

I LOVE Google Play Music. Love it. That said a few changes would make it better. The first would be too create/save queue with podcasts like one can with music. Second would be to integrate lyrics with songs/videos. I can find lyrics online in browser for Google Play lyrics but not in the app. Kinda frustrating. It would also be nice to have the videos integrated into the app better. Even be able to just create video playlists in the app without the need to go to YouTube. Though the YouTube Red addition to the subscription is pretty bitchin. Thanks for an awesome app just the same!

When I view an album, I would like to see what playlists I've added it to. Sometimes when viewing an album, the 'Share' option is not available. The UI is very difficult to learn, everyone on my family plan has given me that feedback. Often times there is music I like but the a new album doesn't appear on the new releases. This seems like new releases are more of an advertisement than artists relevant to my interests. Thank for all your hard work, I'm interested in what I hear may be happening to the service later this year as some have suggested it will merge with YouTube.

I think this app has a bug. I used the file manager app of Moto to play my .flac and .mp3 files and it prompted me to use this app. After playing some music, I closed the app perfectly. It didn't even lasted 5 minutes of play time. Since then, my volume controls are on music by default and my battery drained fast even without me using the phone (i had it on sleep mode). Did you really had bugs fixed last update?

Great app, responsive. Would be great to be able to filter your Library differently though. Playlists by 1) Purchased/Free, 2) All Access Library but not Purchased, 3) Own Music Uploaded/sideloaded, 4) mixture of these 3 as required. The recent update to allow selection of 'downloaded' only still includes music on your device....almost there, Google! Would be good to launch/'add to library' straight from Google Play instead of manually searching in Google Music.

Long time Play Music subscriber strongly considering leaving. The Android Auto app is so bare bones that it isn't even funny. The contextually aware playlist suggestions , genre, activity, mood stations aren't available within the Android Auto version of the app. It's so bare bones that you wind up listening to the same music over and over again. Play Music offers great curated playlists. Please make them accessible to me in Android Auto and I'll be super happy and content. Thank you for your consideration!

The whole Google Play Music environment needs more robust and reliable syncing and better handling of metadata. This app needs clear differentiation between uploads, purchases and subscription music in My Library, and filtering for searches. There have been many quirks with casting. Most get fixed eventually but it would be better if they didn’t keep appearing.

It's pretty good but it loses my downloads all the time. This means a large portion of my monthly data allowance is used to constantly download the same songs when they should not have disappeared in the first place. This has been ongoing so long now that I believe they must have an arrangement with the phone company to make people have to buy more data than they should need to.

Trying to switch from Apple to Android and one thing Apple does well is music. Being able to ask Siri to play some upbeat music then it creates a station tailored to what you listen to and like. Unlike just finding a random playlist like Google does. So far I find Google Play Music is not good for finding new music just listening to what you have and with a much smaller library to access then Apple makes that hard also.

Overall it needs more user customization, and better suggestions that I'd actually want to watch. There's something about the app's functionality that is sort of a turn off. I can't really put my finger on it. In a way it reminds me how websites were often not user friendly in the late 90s/early 2000s. Netflix has done one of the best job about displaying titles in a way that's very appealing to me. They are always very user friendly and EASY to navigate, but still in stylish, classy way.

No dark/black theme, white always glaring me in the face, especially at night. No easy way to add music you like to library without navigating through menus. No crossfading between tracks. Uses a lot more data than Spotify, so you'll burn through your plan in days, what takes Spotify weeks. And I'm not a fan of the thumbs up on the left. Make it like Spotify with thumbs up on the right/thumbs down on the left. Don't change things just to be different. Now even three stars is a stretch.

User interface isn't as good as Spotify, but you can get used to it as you use it. Would be nice to sort playlist songs by date added so that I do not have to scroll all to the bottom to listen to the song I just added. Also it'd be cool to add the featured artists in the song title so that I can look up those artists to while I am on the app.

Honestly has more music than Spotify and is better then it. One issue and its not a big one to me because honestly you can get 3 months versus 1 month free. The issue is the interface its old I'd recommend a revise otherwise 100% better than Spotify especially for people who listen to good music not this garbage today. That is all.

Really enjoying the application and service. Only thing that could make it better for me would be the option to turn on volume levelling. Trying to fall asleep to even classical music that has been mastered at different volumes isn't cool. Having recently gone through the forums, people have been requesting this feature for some time to no avail. Spotify is now available in my country and the free version has volume normalisation. Have cancelled my subscription with you.

It's usefull... for me because it does not waste my storage.... but you have to fix the background theme.... and why can't you guyz give permission by permanently alowing us to store the songs..... also the player is very old fasioned.... so why can't you add some animation like walkman and the wynk music.... so that it would be interesting for the user to use...also you can add sleeping timer for the app.... it would be great... anyway I appreciate your work guys... keep it up 😊😊😊😊

So let me paint a scene for you, i am out for a walk or a bikeride with my bluetooth headset connected. I dont touch anything to do with it but my music stops without warning. No beeps saying my headset got disconnected or its batteries are low, but my music stops, no warnig no explanation. I pull aside to look at what happened and the playlist paused itself midsong. This has happened multiple times.

Browsing music stored or downloaded sucks big! Trying to play all albums by artist is impossible, unless you like your tracks random. Scrolling by album takes forever and cover art is too big in that view. App is clearly designed for one thing SEARCH, but not for enjoying your music collection online or offline.

1. Please include the option to add lyrics to the song, so that lyrics show up on screen when song plays. 2. make the sleep timer more accessible than being hidden in settings. Besides that, this app is amazing ! I loved the experience. Please make these changes and I'll update my rating to 5

The has great playlists, better music than any other app ever used. Always great to open the app and listen to random music as it gives exactly what you wanna hear. The major disadvantage is it has lot of bugs, in everything. Music stops playing after sometime, Volume control switches to media volume in my Moto and need to boot to use normally, etc.

You can't add new songs in the old playlist. Many music player has the option to add multiple songs in a playlist, Google music player doesn't give you that option. And in terms of searching songs, there is no search help. There are lot of bugs too. I know Google is busy with a lot of fancy stuff, but is the simple basic stuff that ruins your company image the most

App it self functions well. Love the monthly service. Issues come in with using over Bluetooth. When starting podcast or music will sometimes play a few seconds then restarts. Will do this 3~5x before finally playing. Will forget spot left of on podcast. Thought it might have been a vehicle issue but happens with wife's phone on her car too.

Was liking this app until they got greedy for payment. I ran out of funds, but was going to pay next payday. Come payday I find out from my bank that Google Music tried over five times to withdrawal payment. Causing my bank account to be suspended. If the money is not there it is not there. Maybe offer the ability to schedule payments and this wouldn't happen. Unsubscribing and switching to Spotify.

There is an issue I recently noticed where you pick a song it plays at normal volume and as soon as it finishes the next song the volume is literally half and u have to manually pick the song again for it to be at normal volume... Plz if someone knows a way to fix it id appreciate it, pay to much in songs to not be able to use the app normally

This was my go-to music app for years, but recently it has stopped working altogether. When I try to play music it just skips every single song instantly, and I can't make it stop skipping through all of my music unless I force stop it, as the pause button no longer works.

This app is getting better. The automatic download feature works now but the 1,000 track limit for playlists is just pitiful for an app that allows you to download 100,000 tracks. I'd use this every day if they fixed that one thing but people have been saying this for years and Google has done a whole lot of nothing about it 😩 I've been patient for years but it seems like I've got to migrate everything to Spotify

I just wish we can customized the look (Orange is not really my thing) and why is it the only music player on the oneplus one and why can't it update the album cover... Just why... Can't even sort my albums right instead puts it all in unknown album. I would choose sense 6 music player anytime because of the looks and features. Edit* Acts weird when it goes to orientation mode when playing and vice versa

Really poor UX design. Very complicated megabytes. No simple way to do simple things like create a play list - have to add one song at a time. Can't find downloaded files on the mobile device - have to separately download mp3 files through the browser if I want to copy the file across devices. Also the library does not see files that were added to the same location as the other files.

When the app works it is really good. But about 2 months in it now won't allow me to stream any songs. I have tried to contact the developer by email and all you get is a reply saying that this is a no-reply email address so you have to click on a link instead. When you click on the link it does not give you an option to get any help with this application.

Probably the ugliest user-interface of all the big streaming devices. The album is zoomed in blocking out most of the album art and there are wide white borders on the top and bottom blocking out more of the album art. Otherwise, this is pretty easy to use and you also get YouTube Red if you are a subscriber.

I was really upset today. My favorite band of the day is Hed PE. All but two of their albums were available on my play subscription until yesterday. You guys took down a number of those albums... My favorite of their albums you took down. This has me looking for another music app subscription. You guys should send out notifications so we can at least download the albums if you're going to take them offline. What's up... I will be leaving play music on the 7th when my subscription expires

I would love to see Comsat Angels added to your music list. I can't believe that there is absolutely nothing by them listed. I also would like it if I could dislike certain bands so I never hear them again. Like New Order. I absolutely would love to never hear them and there same old sound over and over again.

When I try and find genres apart from rock and indie they're not there? Used to have explore, look for music like classical, dance, folk etc... Click on the album and add to the library... Now seems like a mish mash.. Not impressed at all...also the 3 dot menu option on the right hand side is tricky to select, more often it moves the scroll up or down on the page. It's damn infuriating! All the white space, how a about a dark theme?

I have always had issues with this app. It tends to erase my playlists often and most recently some of my songs won't upload to the library. My favorite ones of course. I can play the songs through this app from file manager but they won't go to the library. I'm over the hassle and downloading VLC

This is the only app where you can use all 5 of your daily skips, watch 15 advertisements, and restart the app 5 separate times before even listening to a single song. It's also a battery drain now, causing overheating issues on the brand new Pixel 2 XL unmodified.

This app is a pain to use sometimes. If you don't constantly update then you can't access songs and they drop off you play list. Currently have it in the most up to date state and I can not access any of line songs or podcast. You are not able to easily create playlists and you can not share your playlists with anyone, not even within your family circle. If you are trying to add song downloaded from a playlist it doesn't seem to until you get back online. The idea of paying for an off line app is to be able to use it offline. This is a super basic app and if I wasn't paying for the family plan I'd get rid of it and use Pandora.

I don't hate this app, I despise it for one reason. It isn't easy to search my music library. Simple as that. The best search company in the world and certainly my favorite and they'll show me radio stations and videos, but not the contents of my music library when I search for it. The only way to find a song in my library is to search the album title. It'll show the tracks and you can pick the one you want. Can't search song title and get anything besides radio or buy it here links. C'mon Google, make it work right.

It is a very good music player. It has everything i want. Only thing i want in this player is many kind of themes and more colourful interface... And also colours should change according to album art like Sony's Walkman.... Please add play all in one folder like thing...!!!

If you want to be blinded by white light in the dark then this is the app for you. Love accessing the equalizer through lots of sub menus and settings, with no easy access, download this app NOW! What a waist of time I can't believe they haven't fixed this yet. This app is so outdated.

Google play should add option for viewing embedded id3 tag lyrics. And NOW PLAYING screen zooming the cover art, usually cover arts are small in resolution, so it blurs the cover art.it looks blurry and messy. if these are sorted out , I will give 5 stars.

From time to time, the app seems not to recognise the music on my memory card. I have to take out the mem card, remove the music then restore it and then put the memory card back in the phone. After the fourth or fifth time doing this, I left the app and now use VLC for music and video playback. Good luck fixing THAT problem.

I used this app for a while and have purchased a lot of music with this app. Today I found it, first didnt want to see my music on the sd card. After uninstalling and reinstalling, now it doesnt want to play the songs i purchased without wifi. Before i would turn off wifi and listen to my music with no problems. Now I find that I have to pay $9.99 a month to listen to the songs I paid for without using wifi. This is a clear money grab and i wont tolerate it. Ill get my music from itunes and put them on my phone. That way i know i can listen without having to worry the songs will be taken back from me unless i pay to use them without wifi.